The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language
The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
Yes, living voices in a living language, so it seemed to us.
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
The truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element.
